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New local government areasE

1 New local government areas in England.E

(1)For the administration of local government on and after 1st April 1974 England (exclusive of Greater London and the Isles of Scilly) shall be divided into local government areas to be known as counties and in those counties there shall be local government areas to be known as districts.

(2)The counties shall be the metropolitan counties named in Part I and the non-metropolitan counties named in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Act and shall comprise the areas respectively described (by reference to administrative areas existing immediately before the passing of this Act) in column 2 of each Part of that Schedule.

(3)The districts in the metropolitan counties shall be those respectively specified in column 2 of the said Part I and shall comprise the areas respectively described (by reference to administrative areas existing immediately before the passing of this Act) in that column, and the Secretary of State may by order provide a name for any such district.

(4)The districts in the non-metropolitan counties shall be those respectively specified in one or more orders made by the Secretary of State under paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to this Act and having the names given to them by one or more orders so made.

(5)Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect in relation to the boundaries of the new local government areas.

(6)Subject to Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Act and to any provision corresponding to that Part made by an order under section 254 below, the rural parishes existing immediately before 1st April 1974 shall continue to exist on and after that date by the name of parishes.

(7)The said Part IV shall have effect with respect to the existing rural parishes which by virtue of this Act are comprised in more than one county or more than one metropolitan district.

(8)Part V of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of constituting parishes the boundaries of which are determined by reference to those of existing boroughs and urban districts and also, in cases where the areas of such boroughs and urban districts are divided by or under this section between two or more new districts, by reference to the boundaries of the new districts.

(9)The boroughs which by virtue of section 141 of the 1933 Act or section 28 of the M1Local Government Act 1958 are included in rural districts immediately before the passing of this Act shall on the passing of this Act become parishes without ceasing to be boroughs, but shall cease to be boroughs on 1st April 1974.

(10)On that date the following local government areas existing immediately before that date outside Greater London and the Isles of Scilly, that is to say, all administrative counties, boroughs (except those in rural districts), urban districts, rural districts and urban parishes, shall cease to exist and the council of every such area which has a council shall also cease to exist.

(11)On that date the municipal corporation of every borough outside Greater London (and the corporation of a borough included in a rural district) shall cease to exist.

(12)In this section “England” does not include the administrative county of Monmouthshire or the county borough of Newport.

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Principal councilsE

2 Constitution of principal councils in England.E

(1)For every [F1non-metropolitan] county there shall be a council consisting of a chairman and councillors and the council shall have all such functions as are vested in them by this Act or otherwise.

(2)For every district there shall be a council consisting of a chairman and councillors and the council shall have all such functions as are vested in them by this Act or otherwise.

[F2(2A)Where a council mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) above are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive or a mayor and council manager executive, the council shall consist of an elected mayor, a chairman and councillors.]

[F3(2B)In such a case, a reference in this Act to a member of a council is a reference to—

(a)the elected mayor of the council,

(b)the chairman of the council, or

(c)a councillor of the council.]

(3)Each council mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) above shall be a body corporate by the name “The County Council” or “The District Council”, as the case may be, with the addition of the name of the particular county or district.

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Members of principal councilsE

3 Chairman.E

(1)The chairman of a principal council shall be elected annually by the council from among the councillors.

[F4(1A)A member of the executive of a principal council may not be elected as the chairman of the council.]

(2)The chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, continue in office until his successor becomes entitled to act as chairman.

(3)During his term of office the chairman shall continue to be a member of the council notwithstanding the provisions of this Act relating to the retirement of councillors.

(4)The chairman of a district council shall have precedence in the district, but not so as prejudicially to affect Her Majesty’s royal prerogative.

[F5(4A)Subsection (4) above shall have effect in relation to a district council which are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive F6. . . as if it provided for the elected mayor of the council to have precedence in the district, but this subsection shall not apply if the executive arrangements provide for it not to apply.]

(5)A principal council may pay the chairman for the purpose of enabling him to meet the expenses of his office such allowance as the council think reasonable.

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4 Election of chairman.E

(1)The election of the chairman shall be the first business transacted at the annual meeting of a principal council.

(2)If, apart from section 3(3) above or section 5(2) below, the person presiding at the meeting would have ceased to be a member of the council, he shall not be entitled to vote in the election except in accordance with subsection (3) below.

(3)In the case of an equality of votes the person presiding at the meeting shall give a casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have.

5 Vice-chairman.E

(1)A principal council shall appoint a member of the council to be vice-chairman of the council.

[F7(1A)A member of the executive of a principal council may not be appointed as the vice-chairman of the council.]

(2)The vice-chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until immediately after the election of a chairman at the next annual meeting of the council and during that time shall continue to be a member of the council notwithstanding the provisions of this Act relating to the retirement of councillors.

(3)Subject to any standing orders made by the council, anything authorised or required to be done by, to or before the chairman may be done by, to or before the vice-chairman.

(4)A principal council may pay the vice-chairman for the purpose of enabling him to meet the expenses of his office such allowance as the council think reasonable.

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6 Term of office and retirement of councillors.E

(1)Councillors for a principal area shall be elected by the local government electors for that area in accordance with this Act and Part I of the [F8Representation of the People Act 1983].

(2)For the purposes of the election of councillors—

(a)every [F9non-metropolitan] county shall be divided into electoral divisions, each returning (subject to paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to this Act [F10and subject to [F11section 56(8) of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009][F12and section 12(4) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007]]) one councillor;

[F13(b)every metropolitan district shall be divided into wards, each returning such number of councillors as may be provided as mentioned in subsection (3) below;]

(c)every non-metropolitan district shall be divided into wards, each returning such number of councillors as may be provided [F14as mentioned in subsection (3) below];

and there shall be a separate election for each electoral division or ward.

[F15(3)The number of councillors referred to in subsection (2)(b) or (c) above may be provided—

(a)under or by virtue of the provisions of section 7 below;

(b)by an order under Part 2 of the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19) [F16or Part 3 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009];

(c)by an order under section 14 of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29);

(d)by an order under Part 1 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.]

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7 Elections of councillors.E

(1)The ordinary elections of county councillors shall take place in 1973 and every fourth year thereafter, their term of office shall be four years and they shall retire together in every such fourth year on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of county councillors, and in and after 1977 the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.

(2)The ordinary elections of metropolitan district councillors shall take place in 1973, 1975 and every year thereafter other than [F171977 and every fourth year thereafter].

(3)Subject to paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to this Act, the term of office of metropolitan district councillors shall be four years and one-third of the whole number of councillors in each ward of a metropolitan district, being those who have been councillors for the longest time without re-election, shall retire in every ordinary year of election of such councillors on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of such councillors, and in and after 1975 the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.

(7)[F19Where the Secretary of State receives a request under subsection (4)(b) above from a district council he may [F20direct the Local Government Commission for England to conduct a review and make recommendations] in the light of the request with respect to—

(a)the number, boundaries and names of the wards into which the district should be divided and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward;

(b)the order of retirement of councillors elected for wards not returning a number of councillors which is divisible by three;

[F21and the provisions of Part II of the Local Government Act 1992 shall apply accordingly].]

(8)The ordinary elections of non-metropolitan district councillors shall take place—

(a)except where an order is in force providing for the election of district councillors by thirds, in 1973, 1976, 1979 and every fourth year thereafter; and

(b)where such an order is in force, in the year when the order comes into force and every year thereafter other than a year of election of county councillors.

(9)The following provisions of this subsection shall, subject to the provisions of any order made under or by virtue of this section, have effect with respect to non-metropolitan district councillors:—

(a)their term of office shall be three years in the case of the councillors elected at the ordinary elections in 1973 and 1976 and four years in the case of those elected at ordinary elections held thereafter;

(b)except where an order is in force providing for the election of councillors by thirds, the whole number of councillors shall retire together in every ordinary year of election of such councillors on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of such councillors, and in and after 1976 the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire; and

(c)where such an order is in force, one-third of the whole number of councillors in each ward returning a number of councillors which is divisible by three and, as nearly as may be, one-third of the whole number of the councillors in the other wards, being those who have been councillors of the district for the longest time without re-election, shall retire in every ordinary year of election of such councillors on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of such councillors, and in every such year the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.

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8 Constitution and membership of Greater London Council and London borough councils.E

(1)Sections 2 to 7 above shall not apply to F22. . . London borough councils but, subject to subsection (2) below, the provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect in relation to them instead.

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ParishesE

9} Parish meetings and councils.E

(1)For every parish there shall be a parish meeting for the purpose of discussing parish affairs and exercising any functions conferred on such meetings by any enactment and, subject to the provisions of this Act or any instrument made thereunder, for every parish or group of parishes having a parish council before 1st April 1974 there shall continue to be a parish council.

(4)Subject to any order under [F27section 10 or 11 below [F28Part II of the Local Government Act 1992 or [F29section 86 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007]]], there shall be a separate parish council for—

(a)every parish which immediately before the passing of this Act was a borough included in a rural district;

(b)every parish which immediately before the passing of this Act was co-extensive with a rural district;

(c)every parish established by paragraph 1 of Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Act;

(d)every parish to which part of another parish is added by paragraph 2 of the said Part IV and which immediately before the passing of this Act had no parish council; and

(6)An order shall not be made under [F31section 86 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007] establishing a separate parish council for a parish grouped under a common parish council unless by that order or an order under section 11(4) below the parish is separated from the group or the group is dissolved, and where the group is not dissolved, the order under [F32section 86 of the 2007 Act] shall make such provision as appears to the district council to be necessary for the alteration of the parish council of the group.

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10 Power to dissolve parish councils in small parishes.E

(1)Where the population of a parish having a separate parish council includes not more than 150 local government electors, the parish meeting may apply to the district council [F33London borough council] for the dissolution of the parish council, and thereupon the district council [F33London borough council] may by order dissolve the parish council.

(2)Where an application under this section by a parish meeting is rejected, another such application may not be presented by that meeting within two years from the making of the previous application.

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(1)The parish meeting of a parish may apply to the district council [F34or London borough council] for an order grouping the parish with some neighbouring parish or parishes in the same district [F35or London borough] under a common parish council or by adding the parish to an existing group of such parishes under such a council, and the district council [F34or London borough council]may thereupon make an order accordingly, but subject to subsection (2) below.

(2)Parishes shall not be grouped without the consent of the parish meeting of each of the parishes.

(c)for the application to the parishes included in the group of all or any of the provisions of [F37section 79 of the Charities Act 1993](parochial charities) and of any of the provisions of this Act with respect to the custody of parish documents, so as to preserve the separate rights of each parish;

(d)for the dissolution of the separate parish council of any parish included in the group,

and the order may provide for the consent of the parish meeting of a parish being required to any particular act of the parish council, and for any necessary adaptations of this Act to the group of parishes or to the parish meetings of the parishes in the group.

[F38(3A)In this section “electoral arrangements”, in relation to a council, means all of the following—

(a)the year in which ordinary elections of councillors are to be held;

(b)the number of councillors to be elected to the council by each parish;

(c)the division (or not) of any of the parishes, into wards for the purpose of electing councillors;

(d)the number and boundaries of any such wards;

(e)the number of councillors to be elected for any such ward;

(f)the name of any such ward.]

(4)The district council [F39or London borough council] may on the application of the council of a group of parishes or of the parish meeting of any parish included in a group of parishes make an order dissolving the group or separating one or more of those parishes from the group, and an order so made shall make such provision as appears to the district council [F39or London borough council] to be necessary for the election of a parish council for any of the parishes in the group, where it is dissolved, and for any of the parishes separated from the group, where it is not.

(5)Parishes grouped under a common parish council before 1st April 1974 and situated in different districts on and after that date shall, notwithstanding that they are so situated, continue to be grouped under that council—

(a)unless an order is made under F40. . . subsection (4) above or [F41Part II of the Local Government Act 1992][F42or [F43section 86 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007]] dissolving the group; or

(b)except so far as such an order separates one or more of the parishes from the group;

and any order under [F44subsection (4) above or [F43section 86 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007]] in relation to any parishes so situated shall be made by the district councils concerned acting jointly.

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(e)any district council or county council within whose area the parish lies.]

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11BDe-grouping: alternative stylesE

(b)an order under section 11(4) dissolves the group or separates one or more parishes from the group.

(2)The order under section 11(4) must provide for each de-grouped parish to continue to have the alternative style.

(3)In subsection (2) “de-grouped parish” means—

(a)in the case of dissolution of the group, each parish in the group;

(b)in the case of separation of one or more parishes from the group, each parish that is separated.]

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12 Provision supplementary to sections 9 to 11.E

(1)An order made by a district council or district councils [F47or by a London borough council] under section F48. . . 10 or 11 above may contain such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provision as may appear to the district council or district councils [F49or the London borough council] to be necessary or proper for the purposes or in consequence of the order or for giving full effect thereto, and may include provision with respect to the transfer and management or custody of property (whether real or personal) and the transfer of rights and liabilities.

(2)When any such order is made, [F50[F51 section 16 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (agreements about incidental matters) shall apply as if—

(i)the reference in subsection (1) to an order under section 7 or 10 of that Act were to an order under section 10 or 11 of this Act; and

(ii)the reference in subsection (5)(b) to any order or regulations under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of that Act were to an order under section 10 or 11 of this Act.]

(3)Two copies of every [F52order under section 10 or 11 above] shall be sent to the Secretary of State.]

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(e)any district council, county council or London borough council within whose area the parish lies.

(6)In this section “appropriate parish authority” means—

(a)the parish council, or

(b)if the parish does not have a parish council, the parish meeting.]

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12BGroups of parishes: alternative stylesE

(2)The common parish council of the group may resolve that each of the grouped parishes shall have the same alternative style.

(3)If each of the grouped parishes has an alternative style, the common parish council of the group may resolve that each of the grouped parishes shall cease to have that style.

(4)A single resolution may provide for each of the grouped parishes—

(a)to cease to have an alternative style, and

(b)to have the same one of the other alternative styles instead.

(5)If the common parish council passes a resolution under this section for each of the grouped parishes to have an alternative style, the group of parishes shall have the appropriate one of the following styles—

(a)“group of communities”;

(b)“group of neighbourhoods”;

(c)“group of villages”.

(6)As soon as practicable after passing a resolution under this section, the common parish council of a group must give notice of the change of style to all of the following—

(e)any district council, county council or London borough council within whose area the group lies.]

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13 Constitution of parish meeting, etc.E

(1)The parish meeting of a parish shall consist of the local government electors for the parish.

(2)Any act of a parish meeting may be signified by an instrument signed by the person presiding and two other local government electors present at the meeting, or, if an instrument under seal is required, by an instrument signed by those persons and sealed with the seal of the parish council in the case of a parish having a separate parish council or the parish trustees in any other case, if that council or those trustees have a seal, or, if they do not, with the seals of those persons.

(3)In a parish not having a separate parish council the chairman of the parish meeting and the proper officer of the district council shall be a body corporate by the name of “the Parish Trustees” with the addition of the name of the parish.

(4)The parish trustees of a parish shall act in accordance with any directions given by the parish meeting.

(5)Notwithstanding anything in any rule of law the parish trustees need not have a common seal, but where they have no seal any act of theirs which requires to be signified by an instrument under seal may be signified by an instrument signed and sealed by the persons who are the parish trustees.

(b)the parish trustees shall be known by the name of “The Community Trustees” with the addition of the name of the community.

(5B)If the parish has the style of neighbourhood—

(a)the parish meeting shall have the style of “neighbourhood meeting”;

(b)the parish trustees shall be known by the name of “The Neighbourhood Trustees” with the addition of the name of the neighbourhood.

(5C)If the parish has the style of village—

(a)the parish meeting shall have the style of “village meeting”;

(b)the parish trustees shall be known by the name of “The Village Trustees” with the addition of the name of the village.]

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14 Constitution and powers of parish council.E

(1)A parish council shall consist of the chairman and parish councillors and shall have all such functions as are vested in the council by this Act or otherwise.

(2)The parish council shall be a body corporate by the name “The Parish Council” with the addition of the name of the particular parish.

[F57(2A)If the parish has the style of community, the council shall be known by the name “The Community Council” with the addition of the name of the community.

(2B)If the parish has the style of neighbourhood, the council shall be known by the name “The Neighbourhood Council” with the addition of the name of the neighbourhood.

(2C)If the parish has the style of village, the council shall be known by the name “The Village Council” with the addition of the name of the village.

(2D)If parishes are grouped under a common parish council—

(a)subsection (2), (2A), (2B) or (2C) (as appropriate) applies to that council as the subsection would apply in the case of the council of an individual parish; but

(b)the names of all of the parishes, communities, neighbourhoods or villages in the group are to be included in the name of the common council.]

(3)Notwithstanding anything in any rule of law, a parish council need not have a common seal, but where a parish council have no seal any act of theirs which is required to be signified by an instrument under seal may be signified by an instrument signed and sealed by two members of the council.

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15 Chairman and vice-chairman of parish council or meeting.E

(1)The chairman of a parish council shall be elected annually by the council from among the [F58elected] councillors.

(2)The election of a chairman shall be the first business transacted at the annual meeting of the parish council and if, apart from subsection (8) below, the person presiding at the meeting would have ceased to be a member of the parish council, he shall not be entitled to vote in the election except in accordance with subsection (3) below.

(3)In the case of an equality of votes in the election of a chairman the person presiding at the meeting shall give a casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have.

(4)The chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, continue in office until his successor becomes entitled to act as chairman.

(5)A parish council may pay the chairman for the purpose of enabling him to meet the expenses of his office such allowance as the council think reasonable.

(6)The parish council may appoint [F59one of the elected members] of the council to be vice-chairman of the council.

(7)The vice-chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until immediately after the election of a chairman at the next annual meeting of the council.

(8)During their term of office the chairman and vice-chairman shall continue to be members of the council notwithstanding the provisions of this Act relating to the retirement of parish councillors.

(9)Subject to any standing orders made by the parish council, anything authorised or required to be done by, to or before the chairman may be done by, to or before the vice-chairman.

(10)In a parish not having a separate parish council, the parish meeting shall, subject to any provisions of a grouping order, at their annual assembly elect a chairman for the year who shall continue in office until his successor is elected.

[F60(11)If the parish has the style of community, the chairman and vice-chairman shall (respectively) have the style—

(a)“chairman of the community council”;

(b)“vice-chairman of the community council”.

(12)If the parish has the style of neighbourhood, the chairman and vice-chairman shall (respectively) have the style—

(a)“chairman of the neighbourhood council”;

(b)“vice-chairman of the neighbourhood council”.

(13)If the parish has the style of village, the chairman and vice-chairman shall (respectively) have the style—

(a)“chairman of the village council”;

(b)“vice-chairman of the village council”.

(14)If parishes which have an alternative style are grouped under a common parish council, subsection (11), (12) or (13) (as appropriate) applies to the chairman and vice-chairman of that council as the subsection would apply in the case of the council of an individual parish.]

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16 Parish councillors.E

(1)The number of [F61elected] parish councillors for each parish [F62council][F63shall not be less than five.]

(2)Parish councillors shall be elected by the local government electors for the parish in accordance with this Act and Part I of the [F64Representation of the People Act 1983 [F65and relevant electoral arrangements]][F65and relevant electoral arrangements].

[F66(2A)In their application to the election of parish councillors, this Act and Part 1 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) are subject to the relevant electoral arrangements that apply to the election.

(2B)For the purposes of this section “relevant electoral arrangements” means—

(a)any arrangements about the election of councillors that are made in, or applicable by virtue of, provision made by virtue of section 245(6)(b) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (transitional, saving or transitory provision), and

(b)any electoral arrangements applicable to the council by virtue of an order under section 7 or 10 or an order under section 86 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.]

(3)Subject to any provision included in an order by virtue of section 67 below and to the provisions of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 3 to this Act, the ordinary elections of parish councillors shall take place in 1976, 1979 and every fourth year thereafter, their term of office shall be three years in the case of those elected at the ordinary elections in 1976 and four years in the case of those elected at ordinary elections held thereafter, and the whole number of parish councillors shall retire together in every ordinary year of election of such councillors on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of such councillors, and the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.

(4)Where a parish is not divided into parish wards there shall be one election of parish councillors for the whole parish.

(5)Where a parish is divided into parish wards there shall be a separate election of parish councillors for each ward.

[F67(6)If the parish has the style of community, the councillors shall have the style of “councillors of the community council”.

(7)If the parish has the style of neighbourhood, the councillors shall have the style of “councillors of the neighbourhood council”.

(8)If the parish has the style of village, the councillors shall have the style of “councillors of the village council”.

(9)If parishes which have an alternative style are grouped under a common parish council, subsection (6), (7) or (8) (as appropriate) applies to the councillors of that council as the subsection would apply in the case of the council of an individual parish.]

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(1)A parish council may appoint persons to be councillors of the council.

(2)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about—

(a)the appointment of persons under this section;

(b)the holding of office after appointment under this section.

(3)The regulations may, in particular, make provision about any of the following matters—

(a)persons who may be appointed;

(b)the number of persons who may be appointed;

(c)the term of office of persons appointed;

(d)the right of persons appointed to participate in decision-making by the council (including voting);

(e)purposes for which a person appointed is to be treated as an elected councillor;

(f)the filling of vacancies.

(4)In exercising a function under or by virtue of this section a parish council must have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State about the exercise of that function.

(5)A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]]

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(3)References to a parish having an alternative style, or a particular alternative style, are references to the parish having that style by virtue of—

(a)a relevant order, or

(b)a resolution under section 12A or 12B.

(4)The provisions of a relevant order which provide for a parish to have, or to cease to have, an alternative style are subject to any resolution under section 12A or 12B relating to that parish.

(5)A resolution under section 12A or 12B relating to a parish is subject to any provisions of a relevant order which provide for a parish to have, or to cease to have, an alternative style.

(6)A parish shall cease to have an alternative style if the parish begins to have the status of a town by virtue of section 245(6).

(7)In this section “relevant order” means an order under—

(a)section 11 of this Act, or

(b)section 86 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.]]

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18 Establishment of new authorities in England.E

Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the division of non-metropolitan counties into districts, the establishment of the new local authorities in England, the suspension of elections of members of existing local authorities there and related matters.

19 Extent of Part I.E

This Part of this Act shall extend to England only.

Part IIW Local Government Areas and Authorities in Wales

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New local government areasW

(1)For the administration of local government on and after 1st April 1996, the local government areas in Wales shall be—

(a)the new principal areas; and

(b)the communities.

(2)The new principal areas (determined by reference to areas which, immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, are local government areas) are set out in Parts I and II of Schedule 4 to this Act.

(3)Each of the new principal areas shall have the name given to it in Schedule 4.

(4)The new principal areas set out in Part I of Schedule 4 shall be counties and those set out in Part II of that Schedule shall be county boroughs.

(5)In this Act “principal area”, in relation to Wales, means a county or county borough.

(6)The counties which were created by this Act, as originally enacted, as counties in Wales, and the districts within them, shall cease to exist on 1st April 1996 except that the preserved counties shall continue in existence (with, in some cases, modified boundaries) for certain purposes.

(7)The councils of the counties and districts mentioned in subsection (6) above shall cease to exist on 1st April 1996.

(8)The areas of the preserved counties are set out in Part III of Schedule 4 and are determined by reference to local government areas in existence immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.

(9)The Secretary of State may by order change the name by which any of the preserved counties is for the time being known.

(10)Any such order shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(11)The Welsh name of each of the new principal areas is shown in Schedule 4 immediately after its English name.]

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Principal councilsW

(1)For every principal area in Wales there shall be a council consisting of a chairman and councillors.

[F73(1A)Where a council falling within subsection (1) are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive or a mayor and council manager executive, the council shall consist of an elected mayor, a chairman and councillors.]

[F74(1B)In such a case, a reference in this Act to a member of a council is a reference to—

(a)the elected mayor of the council,

(b)the chairman of the council, or

(c)a councillor of the council.]

(2)Each such council shall be a body corporate and shall have the functions given to them by this Act or otherwise.

(3)Each council for a county in Wales shall have the name of the county with the addition—

(a)in the case of their English name, of the words “County Council” or the word “Council” (as in “Cardiganshire County Council” or “Cardiganshire Council”); and

(b)in the case of their Welsh name, of the word “Cyngor” (as in “Cyngor Sir Aberteifi”).

(4)Each council for a county borough in Wales shall have the name of the county borough with the addition—

(a)in the case of their English name, of the words “County Borough Council” or the word “Council” (as in “Caerphilly County Borough Council” or “Caerphilly Council”); and

(b)in the case of their Welsh name, of the words “Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol” or the word “Cyngor” (as in “Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Caerffili” or “Cyngor Caerffili”).

(5)In the case of Abertawe, Caerdydd and Powys subsection (3)(b) above shall have effect as if it required the addition of the words “Cyngor Sir”.]

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Members of principal councilsW

22 Chairman.W

(1)The chairman of a principal council shall be elected annually by the council from among the councillors.

[F75(1A)Where a council falling within subsection (1) are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive or a mayor and council manager executive, the council shall consist of an elected mayor, a chairman and councillors.]

(2)The chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, continue in office until his successor becomes entitled to act as chairman.

(3)During his term of office the chairman shall continue to be a member of the council notwithstanding the provisions of this Act relating to the retirement of councillors.

[F76(4)The chairman of a principal council shall have precedence in the area of that council, but not so as to affect Her Majesty’s prerogative prejudicially.]

[F77(4A)Subsection (4) above shall have effect in relation to a principal council which are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive or a mayor and council manager executive as if it provided for the elected mayor of the council to have precedence in the area of that council, but this subsection shall not apply if the executive arrangements provide for it not to apply.]

(5)A principal council may pay the chairman for the purpose of enabling him to meet the expenses of his office such allowance as the council think reasonable.

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23 Election of chairman.W

(1)The election of the chairman shall be the first business transacted at the annual meeting of a principal council.

(2)If, apart from section 22(3) above or section 24(2) below, the person presiding at the meeting would have ceased to be a member of the council, he shall not be entitled to vote in the election except in accordance with subsection (3) below.

(3)In the case of an equality of votes the person presiding at the meeting shall give a casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have.

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24 Vice-chairman.W

(1)A principal council shall appoint a member of the council to be a vice-chairman of the council.

[F78(1A)A member of the executive of a principal council may not be appointed as the vice-chairman of the council.]

(2)The vice-chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until immediately after the election of a chairman at the next annual meeting of the council and during that time shall continue to be a member of the council notwithstanding the provisions of this Act relating to the retirement of councillors.

(3)Subject to any standing orders made by the council, anything authorised or required to be done by, to or before the chairman may be done by, to or before the vice-chairman.

(4)A principal council may pay the vice-chairman for the purpose of enabling him to meet the expenses of his office such allowance as the council think reasonable.

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25 Term of office and retirement of councillors.W

(1)Councillors for a principal area shall be elected by the local government electors for that area in accordance with this Act and Part I of the [F79Representation of the People Act 1983].

[F80(2)For the purpose of the election of councillors, every principal area in Wales shall be divided into electoral divisions, each returning such number of councillors as may be provided by an order under paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to this Act or under or by virtue of the provisions of Part IV of this Act.

(3)There shall be a separate election for each electoral division.]

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[F8125A Title of chairman or vice-chairman of county borough council.W

(1)The chairman of a county borough council is entitled to the style of “mayor” or “maer”.

(2)The vice-chairman of a county borough council is entitled to the style of “deputy mayor” or “dirprwy faer”.]

[F82(3)This section does not apply where a county borough council are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive or a mayor and council manager executive.]

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(1)The ordinary elections of councillors of the new principal councils shall take place in [F842004] and in every fourth year after [F842004].

(2)The term of office of every such councillor shall be four years.

(3)On the fourth day after any such ordinary election—

(a)the persons who were councillors immediately before the election shall retire; and

(b)the newly elected councillors shall assume office.]

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CommunitiesW

(1)A meeting of the local government electors for a community (“a community meeting”) may be convened for the purpose of discussing community affairs and exercising any functions conferred by any enactment on such meetings.

(2)The community councils in existence on 1st April 1996 shall, subject to any provision made under this Act, continue in existence after that date.

(3)Subsection (4) below applies where—

(a)the name of a community was given only in its English form or only in its Welsh form; but

(b)there is a generally accepted alternative form of that name, or alternative name, in Welsh or (as the case may be) in English.

(4)The principal council within whose area the community lies shall, before 1st October 1997, take such steps as may be prescribed with a view to securing that there is both an English and a Welsh name for the community.]

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(1)A community meeting of a community which does not have a separate community council may apply to the principal council within whose area it lies for an order establishing a council for the community.

(2)A community meeting of a community which has a separate community council may apply to the principal council within whose area it lies for an order dissolving the community council.

(3)If, on any application under this section, the principal council are satisfied that the relevant requirements of section 29B below and Schedule 12 to this Act have been complied with, they shall make the order applied for.

(4)An order under this section establishing a separate community council for a community shall make such provision as appears to the council making it to be necessary for the election of a community council in accordance with this Act and Part I of the Representation of the M2People Act 1983.

(5)An order under this section establishing a separate community council for a community grouped under a common community council shall not be made unless—

(a)the community is separated from the group, or

(b)the group is dissolved,

by the order, or by an order under section 29A below.

(6)Where, in a case to which subsection (5) above applies, the group is not dissolved, the order under this section shall make such provision as appears to the principal council making it to be necessary for the alteration of the group’s community council.

(7)Subject to section 30 below, an application under subsection (1) or (2) above may be made at any time.

(8)This section is subject to section 29B below.]

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(1)A community meeting of a community may apply to the principal council within whose area the community is situated—

(a)for an order grouping the community with some neighbouring community or communities which lie in the same principal area as the applicant, under a common community council, or

(b)for an order adding the community to a group of communities—

(i)which are all in the area of the same principal council as the community; and

(ii)for which there is a common community council.

(2)If, on any application under this section, the principal council are satisfied that—

(a)the relevant requirements of section 29B below and Schedule 12 to this Act have been complied with, and

(b)in the case of an application under subsection (1)(b) above, that a community meeting of each of the communities in the group has consented to the applicant becoming a member of the group,

they shall make the order applied for.

(3)Subject to section 30 below, an application under subsection (1) above may be made at any time.

(4)An order under this section shall provide for the name of the group in both an English and a Welsh form.

(5)An order under this section shall—

(a)make such provision as appears to the council making it to be necessary for the election, in accordance with this Act and Part I of the Representation of the M3People Act 1983, of separate representatives on the community council for each community or for the wards of any community or, in the case of an order which adds a community to a group, for that community or for the wards of that community; and

(b)provide for the dissolution of the separate community council of any community included in the group.

(6)An order under this section shall make such provision as appears to the council making it to be necessary for the application to the communities included in the group of all or any of the provisions of section 79 of the M4Charities Act 1993 (parochial charities) and of any of the provisions of this Act with respect to the custody of community documents, so as to preserve the separate rights of each community.

(7)An order under this section may provide for any necessary adaptations of this Act in relation to the group of communities.

(8)This section is subject to section 29B below.]

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(1)The council of a group of communities may apply to the principal council within whose area the communities lie for an order dissolving the group.

(2)A community meeting of a community included in a group of communities may apply to the principal council within whose area the community lies for an order separating the community from the group.

(3)If, on any application under this section, the principal council are satisfied that—

(a)the relevant requirements of section 29B below and Schedule 12 to this Act have been complied with, and

(b)in the case of an application under subsection (1) above, that a community meeting of each of the communities in the group has consented to the dissolution of the community council,

they shall make the order applied for.

(4)Where a community council are dissolved by an order under this section, the order shall make such provision as appears to the principal council to be necessary for the election of a community council for any of the communities in the group in accordance with this Act and Part I of the Representation of the M5People Act 1983.

(5)Where a community is separated from a group by an order under this section, the order shall make such provision as appears to the principal council to be necessary for the election of a community council for the community in accordance with this Act and Part I of the Representation of the M6People Act 1983.

(6)Subject to section 30 below, an application under subsection (1) above may be made at any time.

(7)This section is subject to section 29B below.]

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[F8929B Community councils: applications under section 28, 29 or 29A.W

(1)An application under section 28, 29 or 29A above may be made only if—

(a)a poll of the local government electors in the community has been held;

(b)a majority of those voting in the poll supports the proposal; and

(c)in the case of an application under section 29(1)(a), the application is made jointly with the communities to be grouped under the common community council.

(2)In the case of an application under section 29A(1), paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) above apply in relation to each of the communities concerned.

(3)The consent required by section 29(2)(b) or 29A(3)(b) above may be given by a community meeting only if—

(a)a poll of the local government electors in the community has been held; and

(b)a majority of those voting in the poll supports the proposal.

(4)At any community meeting at which there is discussed a proposal—

(a)for the establishment, or for the dissolution, of a community council,

(b)for the grouping of the community with another community or communities (on an application under section 29(1)(a) or (b) above), under a common community council;

(c)for the separation of the community from the communities with which it is grouped under a common community council;

(d)for the dissolution of the common community council for the communities with which it is grouped;

(e)for the giving of the consent required by section 29(2)(b) or 29A(3)(b) above,

a decision to hold a poll on the question shall be effective only if not less than the required number of local government electors is present and voting.

(5)The required number of local government electors is such number as is equal to 30% of the local government electorate or, if that number exceeds 300, is 300.

(6)No poll shall be held for the purposes of this section before the end of the period of 42 days beginning with the day on which the decision to hold the poll was taken.

(7)Paragraph 34 of Schedule 12 to this Act (voting at community meetings) shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

(8)Where the result of any poll (“the previous poll”) held for the purposes of this section is the rejection of the proposal with respect to which the poll was held, no further poll on that question shall be held before the end of the period of two years beginning with the date on which the previous poll was held.]

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30 Restriction on community applications during and after reviews.W

(b)during the two years beginning with the coming into force of an order relating to the community under Part IV of this Act consequent on the report or proposals of [F91the Welsh Commission] on a review under that Part of this Act of [F92any area] of which the community forms part or, as the case may be, of the community; or

(c)during the two years beginning with the coming into force of an order made under this Part of this Act on a community application in relation to the community.

(3)The Secretary of State may, on an application made by the [F91the Welsh Commission] at any time when conducting a review under Part IV of this Act or on an application by a [F94principal] council at any time when conducting such a review, direct that no community application shall be made in relation to any community affected by the review until the Secretary of State further directs.

(4)Notwithstanding anything in [F95subsection (1)] above but without prejudice to subsection (3) above, the Secretary of State may permit the making of a community application in relation to a community if requested to do so by the council of the [F96area] in which the community is situated or by the community council (if any) or a community meeting of the community.

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(1)An order made by a [F98principal] council under section [F9928, 29 or 29A] above may contain such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provision as may appear to the [F98principal] council to be necessary or proper for the purposes or in consequence of the order or for giving full effect thereto, and may include provision with respect to the transfer and management or custody of property (whether real or personal) and the transfer of rights and liabilities.

(2)Where any such order is made, section 68 below shall apply as if the order were made under Part IV of this Act.

(3)Two copies of every such order shall be sent to the Secretary of State.

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(4)Where a community council do not have a seal, any act of theirs which is required to be signified by an instrument under seal may be signified by an instrument signed and sealed by two members of the council.]

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(2)Where a new principal council are to consider any proposal which relates to a matter which is designated for the purposes of this subsection, the council shall—

(a)afford the relevant community councils an opportunity to make representations to them about the proposal;

(b)before making any decision in relation to the proposal, take into account any representations made to them by any relevant community council with respect to the proposal; and

(c)when they take a decision with respect to the proposal, notify without delay any relevant community council by whom any such representations have been made.

(3)If a community council have given written notice to the relevant principal council—

(a)that they wish to be consulted about a specified proposal which is to be considered by the principal council, and which relates to a matter designated for the purposes of this subsection, or

(b)that they wish to be consulted about any proposal which is to be considered by the principal council and which relates to such a matter,

the principal council shall take the steps mentioned in subsection (2) above in relation to that community council.

(4)An order under this section may—

(a)prescribe circumstances (including, in particular, the need to act with urgency) in which subsections (2) and (3) above do not apply;

(b)give the Secretary of State power, in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the order, to provide that in relation to any principal council specified by him, those subsections shall not apply or shall apply only to the extent specified by him.

(5)A contravention of the duty imposed by subsection (2) or (3) above shall not affect the validity of any decision of a principal council or of anything done in pursuance of any such decision.

(6)In this section—

“relevant community council”, in relation to a principal council, means the council of any community which is, or group of communities which are, within the area of the principal council; and

“relevant principal council”, in relation to any community council, means the principal council within whose area the community is, or group of communities are, situated.

(7)The power to make an order under this section shall include power—

(a)to make such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplemental provision as the Secretary of State thinks necessary or expedient; and

(b)to make different provision for different areas, including different provision for different localities and for different authorities.]

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(1)The chairman of a community council shall be elected annually by the council from among the councillors.

(2)The election of a chairman shall be the first business transacted at the annual meeting of the community council and if, apart from subsection (8) below, the person presiding at the meeting would have ceased to be a member of the community council, he shall not be entitled to vote in the election except in accordance with subsection (3) below.

(3)In the case of an equality of votes in the election of a chairman the person presiding at the meeting shall give a casting vote in addition to any other vote he may have.

(4)The chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, continue in office until his successor becomes entitled to act as chairman.

(5)A community council may pay the chairman for the purpose of enabling him to meet the expenses of his office such allowance as the council think reasonable.

(6)A community council may appoint a member of the council to be vice-chairman of the council.

(7)The vice-chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until immediately after the election of a chairman at the next annual meeting of the council.

(8)During their term of office the chairman and vice-chairman shall continue to be members of the council notwithstanding the provisions of this Act relating to the retirement of community councillors.

(9)Subject to any standing orders made by the community council, anything authorised or required to be done by, to or before the chairman may be done by, to or before the vice-chairman.

35 Community councillors.W

(1)Community councillors shall be elected by the local government electors for the community in accordance with this Act and Part I of the [F102Representation of the People Act 1983].

[F103(2)There shall be ordinary elections of community councillors in [F1042004] and in every fourth year thereafter.

(2A)The term of office of the community councillors shall be four years.

(2B)On the fourth day after any such ordinary election—

(a)the persons who were councillors immediately before the election shall retire; and

(b)the newly elected councillors shall assume office.]

(3)Where a community is not divided into community wards there shall be one election of community councillors for the whole community.

(4)Where a community is divided into community wards there shall be a separate election of community councillors for each ward.

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Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the establishment of principal councils in Wales and connected matters.]

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53 Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales.E+W

(1)There shall be a Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales (in this Act referred to as “the Welsh Commission”) who shall carry out the functions conferred on them by or under this Act.

(2)The provisions of Schedule 8 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the Welsh Commission.

54 Proposals for changes in local government areas in Wales.E+W

(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, the Welsh Commission may in consequence of a review conducted by them or a [F115 principal] council under this Part of this Act make proposals to the Secretary of State for effecting changes appearing to the Commission desirable in the interests of effective and convenient local government by any of the following means or any combination of those means (including the application of any of the following paragraphs to an area constituted or altered under any of those paragraphs):—

(i)amalgamating two or more principal areas or two or more communities;

(ii)aggregating parts of principal areas or parts of communities; or

(iii)separating part of a principal area or part of a community;

(c)the abolition of a principal area and its distribution among other principal areas;

(cc)the abolition of a community and its distribution among other areas of the like description;]

(d)the constitution of a new community by—

(i)the establishment of any area which is not a community or part of one as a community;

(ii)the aggregation of the whole or any part of any such area with one or more communities or parts of communities;

(e)a change of electoral arrangements for any local government area which is either consequential on any change in local government areas proposed under the foregoing paragraphs or is [F117a change (hereafter in this Part referred to as a substantive change) which is independent of any change in local government areas so proposed][F118(f) a change in police areas (including a change resulting in a reduction or increase in the number of police areas) in connection with a change in local government areas]

[F119(1A)The Welsh Commission may, in consequence of a review conducted by them under this Part of this Act make proposals to the Secretary of State for effecting changes in the area of a preserved county which appear to the Commission to be desirable having regard, in particular, to the purposes for which the preserved counties are retained.]

[F120(1B)Where the Welsh Commission make proposals for the constitution of a new principal area, those proposals shall specify whether the new area should be a county or a county borough.]

(2)The Welsh Commission shall not make any proposals to the Secretary of State under this section for a substantive change of electoral arrangements for a community except in accordance with section 57(7) below.

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55 Review of local government areas in Wales.E+W

(1)It shall be the duty of the Welsh Commission to keep under review all [F121principal areas] in Wales for the purpose of considering whether or not to make such proposals in relation to them as are authorised by section 54 above and what proposals, if any, to make, and the Commission shall, unless to do so would in their opinion impede the proper discharge of their functions, consider any request made to them by any local authority appearing to the Commission to be interested in any such [F122principal area] that the Commission should make such proposals, and in either case the Commission shall, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.

(2)[F123It shall be the duty of each Welsh principal council to keep the whole of their area] under review for the purpose of considering whether or not to make recommendations to the Welsh Commission for such proposals with respect to the constitution of new communities, the abolition of communities or the alteration of communities [F124in their area] as are authorised by section 54 above and what recommendations, if any, to make and the council shall, unless to do so would in their opinion impede the proper discharge of their functions under this Part of this Act, consider any request made with respect to any of those matters by any community council or community meeting appearing to [F125the principal council] to be interested, and [F125the principal council] shall from time to time report to the Commission accordingly.

(3)The Welsh Commission shall consider any report made under subsection (2) above with respect to [F126any principal area] in Wales and, if they think fit, make the proposals recommended, either as submitted to them or with modifications, but if the Commission are of the opinion that the proposals recommended are not, as submitted or with modifications, apt for securing effective and convenient local government in [F127that principal area or][F128the principal council] have reported that they will not recommend the Commission to make proposals, the Commission may themselves review the whole or part of [F129that principal area for] the purpose of considering whether or not to make such proposals in relation to it as are authorised by section 54 above and what proposals, if any, to make and may, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.

(4)In any case where the Secretary of State has made an order under section 1 of the M7New Towns Act 1965 designating any land as, or as an extension of, a new town and the area of the new town as so designated or so extended is not wholly comprised within [F130one principal area], he shall, as soon as practicable after the order has become operative, send to the Welsh Commission a notice stating that the order is in operation and specifying the [F131principal areas] within which that area is situated, and on receipt of such a notice it shall be the duty of the Commission to review the areas of those [F131principal areas] for the purpose of considering whether or not to make such proposals in relation to them as are authorised by section 54 above and what proposals, if any, to make, and the Commission shall, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.

(5)If in conducting a review under this section the Commission or a [F132principal council] intend to make, or recommend the making of, proposals for a change in local government areas they shall also consider whether or not in consequence of that change to make or recommend the making of proposals for any of the following:—

(a)the constitution of a council for a community F133. . . or a group of such communities;

(b)the dissolution of a community council, whether separate or common;

(c)the separation of a community from a group of communities having a common community council;

(d)the addition of a community to a group of communities having a common community council;

(e)the making of provision for electoral arrangements for any community or group of communities which is consequential on any change proposed under the foregoing paragraphs;

and subsections (1) to (3) above shall apply in relation to proposals for any of those matters and recommendations for such proposals as they apply in relation to proposals authorised by section 54 above and recommendations for such proposals.

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[F135(1)The Secretary of State may direct the Welsh Commission to conduct a review of—

(a)Wales as a whole,

(b)any one or more local government areas or parts of such areas in Wales, or

(c)any one or more preserved counties or parts of such counties,

for the purpose of considering whether or not to make such proposals in relation to the area reviewed as are authorised by section 54 above and what proposals, if any, to make; and the Commission shall, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.]

(2)The Secretary of State may, at the request of the Welsh Commission or otherwise, direct [F136a principal council] in Wales to conduct a review of the whole or any part of [F137their area] for the purpose of considering whether or not to make recommendations to the Commission for such proposals with respect to the constitution of new communities, the abolition of communities or the alteration of communities in [F137their area] as are authorised by section 54 above and what recommendations, if any, to make, and to report to the Commission accordingly within a period specified in the direction.

(3)The Welsh Commission shall consider any report made under subsection (2) above with reference to [F138any principal area] in Wales and, if they think fit, make the proposals recommended, either as submitted to them or with modifications, but if the Commission are of the opinion that the proposals recommended are not, as submitted or with modifications, apt for securing effective and convenient local government in [F139that principal area] or [F140the principal council] have reported that they will not recommend the Commission to make proposals, the Commission may themselves review the whole or part of [F139that principal area] for the purpose of considering whether or not to make such proposals in relation to it as are authorised by section 54 above and what proposals, if any, to make and may, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.

(4)If a [F141principal] council fail within the period specified in a direction under subsection (2) above to submit a report to the Welsh Commission, the Secretary of State may direct the Welsh Commission to conduct the review which the [F141principal] council were directed to conduct for the purpose of considering whether or not to make any such proposals as aforesaid and what, if any, proposals to make, and the Commission shall, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.

(5)If in conducting a review under this section the Commission or a [F142principal] council intend to make, or recommend the making of, proposals for a change in [F143any areas], they shall also consider whether or not in consequence of that change to make or recommend the making of proposals for any such matters as are mentioned in section 55(5) above, and subsections (1) to (3) of that section shall apply in relation to such proposals and recommendations as they apply in relation to proposals authorised by section 54 above and recommendations for such proposals.

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57 Substantive changes in electoral arrangements.E+W

(1)No review shall be conducted under section 55 or 56 above for the purpose of making proposals for a substantive change of electoral arrangements, but the following provisions of this section shall have effect with respect to the making of such proposals.

(2)It shall be the duty of the Welsh Commission not less than ten or more than fifteen years after the completion of the initial review of the electoral arrangements for [F144principal areas] under [F145section 64 of this Act (as substituted by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994)] and thereafter, so far as is reasonably practicable, at intervals of not less than ten or more than fifteen years from the submission of the last report of the Commission on the previous review under this subsection in relation to the area in question, to review the electoral arrangements for every principal area in Wales for the purpose of considering whether or not to make proposals to the Secretary of State for a substantive change in those electoral arrangements and what proposals, if any, to make, and the Commission shall, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.

(3)Without prejudice to subsection (2) above, the Welsh Commission may at any time, whether at the request of a local authority or otherwise, review the electoral arrangements for a principal area in Wales for the purpose of considering whether or not to make proposals to the Secretary of State for a substantive change in those electoral arrangements and what proposals, if any, to make, and the Commission shall, if they think fit, formulate such proposals accordingly.

(4)It shall be the duty of [F146each principal council] in Wales to keep under review the electoral arrangements for the communities in [F147their area] for the purpose of considering whether or not to make substantive changes in those arrangements and what changes, if any, to make and the council shall consider any requests made with respect to those arrangements by the council for, or not less than thirty local government electors of, any community appearing to the [F148principal council] to be likely to be affected by those changes, and the [F148principal council] may, if they think fit, make an order giving effect to those changes.

(5)The Welsh Commission may, on a request made by the council for, or not less than thirty local government electors of, any community, review the electoral arrangements for the community for the purpose of considering whether or not to make proposals to the [F149principal] council for an order under subsection (6) below changing those arrangements and what proposals, if any, to make, and may, if they think fit, formulate such proposals and send them to the [F149principal] council accordingly.

(6)Where a [F149principal] council have received proposals from the Welsh Commission under subsection (5) above for an order under this subsection they may, if they think fit, make the order proposed or may suggest modifications to the proposals and, where the Commission agree to the modifications suggested, may make the order with those modifications.

(7)If after receiving any such proposals a [F149principal] council inform the Welsh Commission that in their opinion the order proposed should not be made (whether with or without modifications) or if, within six months of receiving any such proposals the [F149principal] council have not made the order proposed (whether with or without modifications), the Commission may report that fact to the Secretary of State and make to him the proposals which they made to the [F149principal] council.

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58 Commission’s reports and their implementation.E+W

(a)in accordance with section 55 or 56 above been conducting a review of any area or considering any recommendations made by a [F150principal] council; or

(b)in accordance with section 57 above been conducting a review of electoral arrangements on which they have a power or duty to formulate proposals to, or submit a report to, the Secretary of State;

and in either case are of the opinion that they are in a position to submit to the Secretary of State a report on the review or any part of it or any of the recommendations, they shall submit a report to him on the review or that part or those recommendations, together with the proposals they have formulated thereon, or, as the case may be, a notification that they have no proposals to put forward thereon.

(2)The Secretary of State may if he thinks fit by order give effect to any proposals made to him by the Welsh Commission, either as submitted to him or with modifications:

Provided that an order giving effect to any such proposals shall not be made until after the expiry of six weeks from the day on which those proposals were submitted to him.

(3)If in relation to any area the Secretary of State decides to make an order under this section giving effect with modifications to proposals made to him by the Commission, he may, if he thinks fit, direct the Commission to conduct a further review of that area or, as the case may be, of its electoral arrangements and to make revised proposals with respect to that area or those arrangements within a time specified in the direction.

[F151(3A)The Secretary of State shall exercise his power to make orders under this section in relation to police areas in such a way as to ensure that no county or county borough is divided between two or more police areas.]

[F152(4)Any statutory instrument containing an order under this section which—

(a)alters the area of a principal council,

(b)alters the area of a preserved county, or

(c)abolishes a principal area,

shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]

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59 Directions about reviews.E+W

(1)The Secretary of State may give the Welsh Commission or [F153a principal council] in Wales directions for their guidance in conducting reviews under section 55, 56 or 57 above and making proposals or recommendations or considering substantive changes in electoral arrangements in consequence thereof, and the directions may relate to all such reviews or to any particular review or class of review.

(2)A direction shall not be given under subsection (1) above with respect to all reviews, reviews of any class or a single review of F154. . . the principal areas in Wales except after consultation with associations appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of local authorities.

(3)The Secretary of State may give directions to the Welsh Commission with respect to the order in which areas or electoral arrangements are to be reviewed by them under any provision of section 55 or 56 above.

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60 Procedure for reviews.E+W

(1)[F155The Welsh Commission or a][F156Welsh principal] council proposing to conduct a review under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall take such steps as they think fit to secure that persons who may be interested in the review are informed of the proposal to conduct it and of any directions of the Secretary of State which are relevant to it.

(2)In conducting any such review [F157the Welsh Commission] or [F156Welsh principal] council shall—

(a)consult—

(i)the council of any local government area [F158and the police authority for any police area] affected by the review, and such other local authorities and public bodies as appear to them to be concerned;

(ii)any bodies representative of staff employed by local authorities who have asked the Commission or the council, as the case may be, to be consulted; and

(iii)such other persons as they think fit;

(b)take such steps as they think fit for securing that persons who may be interested in the review are informed of any draft proposals or recommendations, any draft of an order under section F159. . . 57(4) above or any interim decision not to make proposals or recommendations or any such order and of the place or places where those proposals or recommendations or that order or decision can be inspected;

(c)in particular, deposit copies of those proposals or recommendations or that order or decision at the offices of any principal council [F160or police authority] whose area may be affected thereby and require any such [F161principal] council to keep the copies available for inspection at their offices for a period specified in the requirement; and

(d)take into consideration any representations made to them within that period.

(3)In considering any recommendations made by a [F156Welsh principal] council in consequence of a review conducted by them under this Part of this Act [F157the Welsh Commission] may consult the council of any local government area affected by the review, such other local authorities and public bodies as appear to them to be concerned and such other persons as they think fit.

(4)Where [F157the Welsh Commission] propose to modify any proposals recommended by a [F156Welsh principal] council as aforesaid or not to submit any such proposals, the Commission shall—

(a)take such steps as they think fit for securing that persons who may be interested in any modification or decision are informed of it and of the place or places where it can be inspected;

(b)deposit copies of any draft modification or the decision at the offices of [F162the principal council and of any other principal council in Wales] whose area may be affected thereby and require any such council to keep the copies available for inspection at their offices for a period specified in the requirement; and

(c)take into consideration any representations which may be made to them with respect to any such modification or decision within that period.

(5)Where [F157the Welsh Commission]. . . make a report, proposals or recommendations under this Part of this Act they shall—

(a)take such steps as they think fit for securing that persons who may be interested in the report, proposals or recommendations are informed of the report, proposals or recommendations and of the place or places where they can be inspected;

(b)in particular, deposit copies of the report, proposals or recommendations at the offices of any principal council [F163or police authority] whose area may be affected thereby and require any such [F164principal] council to keep the copies available for inspection at their offices until the expiration of six months after the making of an order giving effect, with or without modifications, to the proposals or recommendations or after a notification by the Commission that they have no proposals to put forward or, as the case may be, by the Secretary of State that he does not propose to give effect to the proposals of the Commission.

[F165(5A)Where a Welsh principal council make a report, proposals or recommendations under this Part of this Act they shall—

(a)make copies of the report, proposals or recommendations available for inspection at their offices for the period mentioned in subsection (5)(b) above;

(b)take the steps mentioned in subsection (5)(a); and

(c)comply with the requirements of subsection (5)(b) above in relation to any other principal council in Wales whose area may be affected by the report, proposals or recommendations.]

(6)Subject to subsections (1) to [F166(5A)] above, the Secretary of State may make regulations prescribing the procedure by which [F157the Welsh Commission] or, as the case may be, a [F156Welsh principal] council are to conduct a review under this Part of this Act or by which [F157the Welsh Commission] are to consider recommendations of a district council thereunder.

(7)Subject to those subsections and to any regulations made under subsection (6) above, the procedure of [F157the Welsh Commission] or a [F156Welsh principal] council in conducting any such review and the procedure of the Commission in considering any such recommendations shall be such as they may determine.

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61 Local inquiries.E+W

(1)[F168The Welsh Commission or a][F169Welsh principal] council may cause a local inquiry to be held with respect to any review carried out by them under this Part of this Act.

(2)Section 250(2), (3) and (5) below shall apply in relation to an inquiry held under this section with the substitution for references to a Minister of references to the Commission or [F169Welsh principal] council causing the inquiry to be held.

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Border between England and WalesE+W

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Initial reviewsE+W

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64 Review of electoral arrangements for Welsh principal areas.E+W

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65 Delegation of functions of Commission.E+W

(1)[F173The Welsh Commission] may appoint one or more members of the Commission—

(a)to hold any local inquiry or to carry out any consultation or investigation which the Commission are required or authorised to hold or carry out under this Act; and

(b)to report to the Commission accordingly.

(2)At the request of [F173the Welsh Commission] the Secretary of State may appoint one or more persons as assistant commissioners for all or any of the purposes specified in subsection (1)(a) and (b) above.

(3)The appointment of an assistant commissioner under subsection (2) above—

(a)shall be for such period or for such purpose or purposes as may be specified in the terms of his appointment; and

(b)shall be on such terms and conditions as to remuneration and otherwise as may be determined by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service.

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67 Consequential and transitional arrangements relating to Part IV.E+W

(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations of general application make such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provision as may appear to him to be necessary or proper for the purposes or in consequence of orders under this Part of this Act or for giving full effect thereto; and nothing in any other provision of this Act shall be construed as prejudicing the generality of this subsection.

(2)Regulations under this section may in particular include, in addition to any provision made by virtue of section 255 below, provision of general application with respect to—

(a)the transfer and management or custody of property (whether real or personal) and the transfer of rights and liabilities;

(b)the functions or areas of jurisdiction of any public body, [F175justice of the peace other than a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts),] coroner, custos rotulorum, lord-lieutenant, lieutenant, high sheriff and other officers (including police officers) [F176, and the functions of any District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts),]within any area affected by any such order, and the costs and expenses of such public bodies and persons as aforesaid;

(c)the transfer of legal proceedings;

and may apply, with or without modifications, or extend, exclude or amend, or repeal or revoke, with or without savings, any provision of an Act, an instrument made under an Act or a charter.

(3)A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4)An order under this Part of this Act may include the like provision in relation to the order as may be made by regulations of general application under this section by virtue of subsections (1) and (2) above; and nothing in any other provision of this Act shall be construed as prejudicing the generality of this subsection.

(5)Any such order may also include provision with respect to—

(a)the name of any altered area;

(b)the constitution [F177, election and membership] of public bodies in any area affected by the order;

[F178(c)the total number of councillors, the apportionment of councillors among electoral areas, the assignment of existing councillors to new or altered electoral areas and the first election of councillors for any new or altered electoral area;]

(d)without prejudice to paragraph (c) above, the holding of a fresh election of councillors for all electoral areas in the local government area in question in a case where substantial changes have been made to some of those areas;

(e)without prejudice to paragraph (c) above, the order of retirement of councillors for any such electoral area;

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68 Transitional agreements as to property and finance.E+W

(1)Any public bodies affected by the alteration, abolition or constitution of any area by an order under this Part of this Act may from time to time make agreements with respect to any property, income, rights, liabilities and expenses (so far as affected by the alteration, abolition or constitution) of, and any financial relations between, the parties to the agreement.

(2)The agreement may provide—

(a)for the transfer or retention of any property, rights and liabilities, with or without conditions, and for the joint use of any property;

(b)for the making of payments by either party to the agreement in respect of property, rights and liabilities so transferred or retained, or of such joint use, and in respect of the remuneration or compensation payable to any person; and

(c)for the making of any such payment either by way of a capital sum or of a terminable annuity.

(3)In default of agreement as to any matter, the matter shall be referred to the arbitration of a single arbitrator agreed on by the parties, or in default of agreement appointed by the Secretary of State, and the award of the arbitrator may provide for any matter for which an agreement under this section might have provided.

(4)Any sum required to be paid by a public body in pursuance of an agreement or award under this section may be paid out of such fund or rate as may be specified in the agreement or award, or if no fund or rate was specified, either out of the fund or rate from which the general expenses of the public body are defrayed, or out of such fund or rate as the public body may direct.

(5)For the purposes of paying any capital sum required to be paid by a public body in pursuance of any such agreement or award—

(a)a local authority may borrow without the approval of the Secretary of State, but so that the sum borrowed shall be repaid within such period as the authority with the consent of the Secretary of State may determine;

(b)any other public body having power under any enactment or any instrument made under any Act to borrow may borrow under that enactment or instrument; and

(c)a public body having no power under any enactment or any such instrument to borrow may be empowered by an order made by the Secretary of State to borrow in such manner and in accordance with such conditions as may be provided by the order.

(8)Any agreement or award under this section which relates to the profits of local taxation licences shall, so far as it so relates, be carried out in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(9)Subsection (8) above shall apply to—

(a)an adjustment made under section 151 of the 1933 Act, whether as originally enacted or as applied by any other enactment or any instrument made under any Act; and

(b)an adjustment made under section 32 or 62 of the M8Local Government Act 1888, whether as originally enacted or as so applied, and consequent on an alteration of areas effected after 31st March 1930;

as it applies in relation to an agreement or award under this section.

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69 Variation and revocation of orders under Part IV, etc.E+W

(1)The power conferred by section 266 below to vary and revoke orders under this Act shall, in the case of orders under this Part of this Act, apply only in relation to any supplementary provision contained in any such order, and an order varying or revoking any such provision shall only be made after compliance with subsections (2) and (3) below.

(2)The Secretary of State or [F182Welsh principal] council proposing to make any such varying or revoking order shall prepare a draft of the order, shall send copies of the draft to such local or public authorities as appear to him or them to be concerned, and shall give public notice, in such manner as appears to him or them sufficient for informing persons likely to be concerned, that the draft has been prepared, that a copy of the draft is available for inspection at a place specified in the notice and that representations with respect to the draft may be made to him or them within two months of the publication of the notice.

(3)The Secretary of State or [F182Welsh principal] council shall consider any representations duly made with respect to the draft and may, if he or they think fit, make an order either in the form of the draft or subject to modifications.

(4)The Secretary of State or a [F183Welsh principal] council may cause a local inquiry to be held with respect to the draft and section 250(2), (3) and (5) below shall apply in relation to an inquiry held under this subsection by a F184. . . council with the substitution for references to a Minister of references to the council.

(5)Any supplementary provision contained in an order made by a Minister of the Crown under any of the following enactments (being enactments making provision corresponding to some or all of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act), that is to say—

(e)any enactment repealed by the 1933 Act and corresponding to any enactment in the said Part VI;

may be varied or revoked by an order made by the Secretary of State, and subsections (2) to (4) above shall apply in relation to any such order as they apply in relation to orders varying or revoking orders under this Part of this Act.

(6)Any supplementary provision contained in an order made under any of the enactments mentioned in subsection (5) above by [F185any predecessor of a Welsh principal council] may be varied or revoked in relation to any [F186Welsh principal area] to which or part of which that provision relates by an order made by the council of [F187that area], and subsections (2) to (4) above shall apply with all necessary modifications in relation to any such order as they apply in relation to orders varying or revoking orders under this Part of this Act.

(7)In this section “supplementary provision” means any such provision as could be made by an order under this Part of this Act by virtue of section 67 above or section 255 below.

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70 Restriction on promotion of Bills for changing local government areas, etc.E+W

[F188(1)][F189[F190No] local authority [F191, joint authority [F192, economic prosperity board, combined authority] or joint waste authority]F193. . .] shall have power to promote a bill for forming or abolishing any local government area F194. . . or for altering, or altering the status or electoral arrangements of, any local government area F194. . ..

[F195(2)Subsection (1) above shall have effect as if the reference to a joint authority included a reference to the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.]

[F196(3)No local authority [F197, joint authority [F192, economic prosperity board, combined authority] or joint waste authority] shall have power to promote a Bill for forming, altering or abolishing executive arrangements or alternative arrangements, or for altering arrangements for electing an elected mayor.]

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71 Modification of seaward boundaries of local government areas.E+W

(1)[F198The Welsh Commission]may at any time review so much of the boundary of any [F199area] as lies below the high-water mark of medium tides and does not form a common boundary with another [F199area] and may make proposals to the Secretary of State for making alterations to any part of the boundary so as to include in the [F199area] any area of the sea which at the date of the proposals is not, in whole or in part, comprised in any other [F199area] or to exclude from the [F199area] any area of the sea which at that date is comprised in the [F199area].

(2)The Secretary of State may direct [F198the Welsh Commission] to conduct a review under this section of a particular boundary or not to undertake during a specified period such a review of a particular boundary, and may give [F198the Welsh Commission] directions for their guidance in conducting a review and making proposals under this section.

(3)Subsections (1), (2), (5), (6) and (7) of section 60 above shall apply in relation to a review under this section as they apply in relation to a review under the provisions of this Part of this Act which precede that section.

(4)The Secretary of State may if he thinks fit by order give effect to any proposals made to him under this section, either as submitted to him or with modifications.

(5)A statutory instrument containing an order under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

[F200(6)In subsection (1) above, “area” (except in “area of the sea”) means any local government area in Wales and any preserved county.

(7)No order may be made under this section extending any area into England.]

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72 Accretions from the sea, etc.E+W

(1)Subject to subsection (3) below, every accretion from the sea, whether natural or artificial, and any part of the sea-shore to the low water-mark, which does not immediately before the passing of this Act form part of a parish shall be annexed to and incorporated with—

(a)in England, the parish or parishes which the accretion or part of the sea-shore adjoins, and

(b)in Wales, the community or communities which the accretion or part of the sea-shore adjoins,

in proportion to the extent of the common boundary.

(2)Every accretion from the sea or part of the sea-shore which is annexed to and incorporated with a parish F201. . . under this section shall be annexed to and incorporated with the district and county in which that parish F201. . . is situated.

[F202(2A)Every accretion from the sea or part of the sea-shore which is annexed to and incorporated with a community under this section shall be annexed to and incorporated with the principal area and the preserved county in which that community is situated.]

(3)In England, in so far as the whole or part of any such accretion from the sea or part of the sea-shore as is mentioned in subsection (1) above does not adjoin a parish, it shall be annexed to and incorporated with the district which it adjoins or, if it adjoins more than one district, with those districts in proportion to the extent of the common boundary; and every such accretion or part of the sea-shore which is annexed to and incorporated with a district under this section shall be annexed to and incorporated with the county in which that district is situated.

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73 Alteration of local boundaries consequent on alteration of water-course.E+W

(1)Where, in the exercise of any power [F203conferred by the conferred by the Water Resources Act 1991, the Land Drainage Act 1991 or] any other enactment, a water-course forming a boundary line between two or more areas of local government is straightened, widened or otherwise altered so as to affect its character as a boundary line, the drainage board or other persons under whose authority the alteration is made shall forthwith send notice of the alteration to the Secretary of State.

(2)If after consultation with [F204the [F205Local Government Boundary Commission for England]] or the Welsh Commission, as the case may require, the Secretary of State is satisfied that, having regard to the alteration specified in the notice, a new boundary line may conveniently be adopted, he may by order declare that such line as may be specified in the order (whether or not consisting wholly or in part of the line of the water-course as altered) shall be substituted for so much of the boundary line as, before the alteration, lay along the line of the water-course; and where such an order is made the limits of the areas of which the water-course, before the alteration, was the boundary shall be deemed to be varied accordingly.

(3)The Secretary of State shall, in such manner as he thinks appropriate, publish notice of any order made by him under this section.

[F206(4)For the purposes of this section a preserved county is an area of local government.]

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74 Change of name of county, district or London borough.E+W

(1)Subject to subsection (5) below, the council of a county [F207, county borough], district or London borough may, by a resolution passed by not less than two-thirds of the members voting thereon at a meeting of the council specially convened for the purpose with notice of the object, change the name of the county [F207, county borough], district or borough.

(2)Where the name of a district which has been granted the status of a city, borough or royal borough or the name of a London borough is changed in pursuance of this section, the charter or other grant or incorporation order shall have effect as if the new name were substituted for the old.

[F208(2A)Where a Welsh principal area which has, by charter or other grant or incorporation order, been granted the status of a county borough, city or royal borough subsequently changes the name of the council in pursuance of this section, the charter or other grant or incorporation order shall have effect as if the new name were substituted for the old.]

(a)shall be sent by the council concerned to the Secretary of State, to the Director General of the Ordnance Survey and to the Registrar General; and

(b)shall be published in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.

(4)A change of name made in pursuance of this section F210. . . shall not affect any rights or obligations of any county [F211, county borough], district or London borough or of any council, authority or person, or render defective any legal proceedings; and any legal proceedings may be commenced or continued as if there had been no change of name.

(7)If the name of a Welsh principal area is changed under this section, and there are generally accepted alternative English and Welsh forms of that name, or alternative English and Welsh names, both forms of the new name or (as the case may be) both names shall be published.]

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75 Change of name of parish.E+W

(1)At the request of the parish council or, where there is no parish council, at the request of the parish meeting, the council of the district in which the parish is situated may change the name of the parish.

(2)Notice of any change of name made under this section—

(a)shall be sent by the district council concerned to the Secretary of State, to the Director General of the Ordnance Survey and to the Registrar General; and

(b)shall be published by the district council in the parish and elsewhere in such manner as they consider appropriate.

(3)A change of name made in pursuance of this section shall not affect any rights or obligations of any parish or of any council, authority or person, or render defective any legal proceedings; and any legal proceedings may be commenced or continued as if there had been no change of name.

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76 Change of name of community.E+W

(1)At the request of the community council or, where there is no community council, at the request of a community meeting, the council of the [F215principal area] in which the community is situated may change the name of the community.

(a)shall be sent by the [F217principal] council concerned to the Secretary of State, to the Director General of the Ordnance Survey and to the Registrar General; and

(b)shall be published by the [F217principal] council in the community and elsewhere in such manner as they consider appropriate.

(3)A change of name made in pursuance of this section F218. . . shall not affect any rights or obligations of any community or of any council, authority or person, or render defective any legal proceedings; and any legal proceedings may be commenced or continued as if there had been no change of name.

[F219(4)If the name of any community is changed under this section, and there are generally accepted alternative English and Welsh forms of that name, or alternative English and Welsh names, both forms of the new name or (as the case may be) both names shall be published.]

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78 Supplementary.E+W

(1)In this Part of this Act—

“electoral arrangements” means—

(a)in relation to a principal area, the number of councillors of the council for that area, the number and boundaries of the electoral areas into which that area is for the time being divided for the purpose of the election of councillors, the number of councillors to be elected for any electoral area in that principal area and the name of any electoral area;

(b)in relation to a parish or community council or a common parish or community council, the number of councillors, the question whether the parish or community or any parish or community, as the case may be, should or should not be or continue to be divided into wards for the purpose of the election of councillors, the number and boundaries of any such wards, the number of councillors to be elected for any such ward or in the case of a common parish or community council for each parish or community and the name of any such ward;

“local government area” includes the City, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple;

(2)In considering the electoral arrangements for local government areas for the purposes of this Part of this Act, the Secretary of State, [F224the Welsh Commission] and every [F225Welsh principal council and] district council shall so far as is reasonably practicable comply with the rules set out [F226in Schedule 11 to this Act].

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Part VE+W General Provisions as to Members and Proceedings of Local Authorities

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Qualifications and disqualificationsE+W

79 Qualifications for election and holding office as member of local authority.E+W

(1)A person shall, unless disqualified by virtue of this Act or any other enactment, be qualified to be elected and to be a member of a local authority F227. . . if he is a [F228qualifying Commonwealth citizen] or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland [F229or a relevant citizen of the Union] and on the relevant day he has attained the age of [F230eighteen] years and—

(a)on that day he is and thereafter he continues to be a local government elector for the area of the authority; or

(b)he has during the whole of the twelve months preceding that day occupied as owner or tenant any land or other premises in that area; or

(c)his principal or only place of work during that twelve months has been in that area; or

(d)he has during the whole of those twelve months resided in that area; or

(e)in the case of a member of a parish or community council he has during the whole of those twelve months resided either in the parish or community or within three miles of it.

(2)In this section “relevant day”, in relation to any candidate, means—

(a)except in the case of an election not preceded by the nomination of candidates, the day on which he is nominated as a candidate and also, if there is a poll, the day of election; and

(b)in the said excepted case, the day of election.

[F231(2A)In this section the expression “citizen of the Union” shall be construed in accordance with Article 8.1 of the Treaty establishing the European Community M11 (as amended by Title II of the Treaty on European Union M12), and “relevant citizen of the Union” means such a citizen who is not a [F232qualifying] Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.]

[F234(2B)For the purposes of this section, a person is a qualifying Commonwealth citizen if he is a Commonwealth citizen who either—

(a)is not a person who requires leave under the Immigration Act 1971 to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, or

(b)is such a person but for the time being has (or is, by virtue of any enactment, to be treated as having) indefinite leave to remain within the meaning of that Act.

(2C)But a person is not a qualifying Commonwealth citizen by virtue of subsection (2B)(a) if he does not require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom by virtue only of section 8 of the Immigration Act 1971 (exceptions to requirement for leave in special cases).]

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80 Disqualifications for election and holding office as member of local authority.E+W

(1)Subject to the provisions of section 81 below, a person shall be disqualified for being elected or being a member of a local authorityF235. . . if he—

(a)holds any paid office or employment (other than the office of chairman, vice-chairman or deputy chairman [F236or, in the case of a local authority which are operating executive arrangements which involve a leader and cabinet executive, the office of executive leader or member of the executive]) appointments [F237or elections] to which are or may be made or confirmed by the local authority or any committee or sub-committee of the authority or by a F238. . . joint committee [F239or National Park authority] on which the authority are represented or by any person holding any such office or employment; or

[F240(aa)holds any employment in a company which, in accordance with Part V of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 other than section 73, is under the control of the local authority; or]

[F241(b)is the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or interim order;]

(d)has within five years before the day of election or since his election been convicted in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man of any offence and has had passed on him a sentence of imprisonment (whether suspended or not) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine; or

[F243(e)is disqualified for being a member of the relevant council under Part III of the Representation of the People Act 1983 or for being a charter trustee [F244under [F245the Audit Commission Act 1998]], and in this paragraph “the relevant council” means the council of the county or district in which is comprised the area for which charter trustees are established by any statutory instrument made under Part II of the Local Government 1992.]

(2)Subject to the provisions of section 81 below, a paid officer of a local authority who is employed under the direction of—

(a)a committee or sub-committee of the authority any member of which is appointed on the nomination of some other local authority; or

(b)a joint board [F246, joint authority ][F247economic prosperity board, combined authority,] or joint committee on which the authority are represented and any member of which is so appointed;

shall be disqualified for being elected or being a member of that other local authority.

[F248(2AA)A paid member of staff of the Greater London Authority who is employed under the direction of a joint committee the membership of which includes—

(a)one or more persons appointed on the nomination of the Authority acting by the Mayor, and

(b)one or more members of one or more London borough councils appointed to the committee on the nomination of those councils,

shall be disqualified for being elected or being a member of any of those London borough councils.]

[F249(2A)Subsection (2) above shall have effect as if the reference to a joint board included a reference to a National Park authority.

(2B)For the purposes of this section a local authority shall be treated as represented on a National Park authority if it is entitled to make any appointment of a local authority member of the National Park authority.]

[F250(3)Subsection (1)(a) shall have effect in relation to a teacher in a school maintained by the local authority who does not hold an employment falling within that provision as it has effect in relation to a teacher in such a school who holds such an employment.]

(5)For the purposes of subsection (1) F252. . . (d) above, the ordinary date on which the period allowed for making an appeal or application with respect to the F252. . . conviction expires or, if such an appeal or application is made, the date on which the appeal or application is finally disposed of or abandoned or fails by reason of the non-prosecution thereof shall be deemed to be the date of the F252. . . conviction, F252. . ..

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81 Exceptions to provisions of section 80.E+W

(2)[F255Where a person is disqualified under section 80 above by reason of his having made a composition or arrangement with his creditors and he pays his debts in full, the disqualification shall cease on the date on which the payment is completed and in any other case it shall cease on the expiration of five years from the date on which the terms of the deed of composition or arrangement are fulfilled.]

(a)any person by reason of his being a teacher, or otherwise employed, in a school, F258. . . or other educational institution maintained or assisted by a county council for being a member of a district council by reason that the district council nominates members of the education committee of the county council; or

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82 Validity of acts done by unqualified persons.E+W

[F260(1)]The acts and proceedings of any person elected to an office under this Act [F261or elected or appointed to an office under Part F262. . . IV of the Local Government Act 1985][F263or elected as elected mayor or executive leader] and acting in that office shall, notwithstanding his disqualification or want of qualification, be as valid and effectual as if he had been qualified.

[F264(2)Subsection (1) above shall have effect, in relation to the Broads Authority, as if the reference to this Act included a reference to the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988.]

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